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The King in Yellow
The Street of the First Shell
Chambers manages to capture the horror of World War One. Except this was written twenty years before that, and instead about the Franco-Prussian War. While he wasn’t there for the siege of Paris, he certainly would have met many who loved through it.
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“Now, what sent you here,” he said—“here into the Street of Four Winds, and up five flights to the very door where you would become welcome? What was it that prevented your meditative flight when I turned from my canvas to encounter your yellow eyes?”
—Robert Chambers, The Street of Four Winds 1895
Cat Delivery system has been functioning for more than a century.
#Reading #TheKingInYellow #Chambers #RobertChambers #CatDeliverySystem
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From the makers of a really good shooter #rogueLike with #Lovecraftian inspirations comes a new shooter #rogueLike that takes inspiration from #theKingInYellow. I'm so in!
#VideoGames
#RobertChambers
#Carcosa
#HaveYouSeenTheYellowSign
#Returnal
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If you've never read #RobertChambers' story collection #TheKingInYellow--
The first four stories are masterpieces of macabre horror fiction. The one after that is almost unsettling by how it isn't as creepy as the first ones. And the last stories are pretty traditional and boring, as are the stories Chambers would write the rest of his career.
Almost as if he was driven mad by reading the play The Yellow Sign himself and as a reaction retreated into writing boring contemporary romances! Or maybe he was replaced by some supernatural entity trying to hide the fact of the original Chambers' disappearance!
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https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/07/24/maybe-the-king-in-yellow-is-real/
Ran across a video about Robert Chambers' story collection The King In Yellow, and the fictitious play that could drive you mad. The more I think of it, that might have been as much of a prophecy about the Internet as Infinite Jest.
#Books, #Culture, #Horror, #ScienceFiction, #Lovecraft,
#addiction, #BlueOysterCult, #DavidFosterWallace, #delusion, #InfiniteJest, #KingInYellow, #reality, #RobertChambers -
Wishing a Happy Auseil to those in the Territories who celebrate. (Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to those that don’t.😉) May your holiday of remembrance be a delight.
https://kmalexander.com/2022/12/24/old-haunts-alleyway-holiday/
#look west #lovat #roader #waldobell #creepy #spooky #animation #lovecraft #cosmichorror #lovecraftian #kinginyellow #robertchambers
